The phrase "act to permit a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is taking action to allow or enable something to happen.
Example: "The committee decided to act to permit a new policy that would benefit all employees."
Alternatives: "take steps to allow a" or "make moves to enable a".
The U.S. Supreme Court has broadly interpreted a federal law – the Federal Arbitration Act – to permit companies to force their customers into individualized, secret arbitration to resolve disputes.
A Supreme Court ruling in 2004 forced revisions of the Patriot Act to permit greater judicial review, without requiring advance authorization.
An act to permit the headscarf in universities was overturned by the constitutional court.
And certainly, in view of the provisions of section 70e of the Bankruptcy Act, Congress did not intend to permit a conveyance such as is here involved to stand which creditors might attack and avoid under the state law for the benefit of general creditors of the estate.
Even if the J20 defendants did not themselves join in any violence or property damage, she held, the riot act could still permit a juror to find them just as guilty of rioting as those who did.
Held : The Railway Labor Act does not permit an employee to recover punitive damages for a union's breach of its duty of fair representation in processing an employee's grievance against his employer for wrongful discharge.
This triggered a 30-day cooling-off period under that Act, at the expiration of which the Act permits a union to resort to a strike.
The Act also permitted a branch to the proposed Inverness & Perth Junction Railway at Grantown-on-Spey.
(Both schools cite the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act -- which permits a university to disclose if a student has violated university policy by committing a sexual offense. When pressed with this information, officials still declined to provide details).
Section 36 of the Act permits a minister empowered to exercise a power or perform a duty to, in the absence of any statutory provision to the contrary, depute another person to exercise the power or perform the duty on his or her behalf.
